Mr Bodacious Meets Ms Bossy Pants

 

He is a rajkumar, she is an aam kumari. He is a polo-playing playboy prince. She is the driven CEO of hospitality start-up WorkPotato. When they meet, sparks fly. Watching a romcom makes one think in romcom clichés. But this is a deliriously silly romcom where the gaze of the two female directors is on the male. Enter the body, er, boy of the moment, Ishaan Khatter, who displayed his physique in The Perfect Couple. But who is complaining? Here is Ishaan (Aviraaj Singh) playing polo barechested in the fictional Morpur, and here he is frolicking in the pool with Nora Fatehi, who plays Princess Ayesha. It doesn’t hurt that he is a good actor and can carry off anything. Bhumi Pednekar is his on-off love interest as Sophia Kanmani Shekhar, Ms Bossy Pants Madam CEO. With a guest cast that includes Zeenat Aman doing some approximation

of Maharani Gayatri Devi and Milind Soman (in a bad wig) playing a version of Bubbles, her stepson, there is enough eye candy. This is just the kind of distraction the summer of discontent needs.

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